Plow-stock



(No Model.) E. KOENIG. PLOW STOCK.

No. 484,520. Patented Oct. 18,1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST KOENIG, OF MOULTON, TEXAS.

PLOW-STOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,520, dated October18, 1892.

Application filed May 3, 1892- Serial No. 431,689. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LERNST KOENIG, a citizen of the United States, residingat Moulton, in the county of Lavaca and State of Texas.have invented anew and useful Plow-Stock, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in plow-stocks,the objects in viewbeing to provide an improved stock that is strong and durable, capableof receiving and operating in connection with any form of sweep,bulltongue, or shovel plows, and to provide means whereby the latter maybe adjustably connected to the stock, and said stock readily adj usted,whereby the penetration of the plow may be increased or diminished inaccordance with the character of plowing to be done.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain features ofconstruction hereinafter specified and particularly pointed out in theclaims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plowembodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detail in perspective of theheel, standard, and shovel-supporting brace.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

The plow stock or beam 1 has depending from its under side and boltedthereto the vertical standard 2, the same rising from the center andupper side of a heel-bar or runner 3. This heel-bar or runner has itsrear end provided with an upward extension 4, and to the opposite sidesof it are bolted the lower ends of the inclined or diverging handles 5.These handles are, as is usuahprovided with rungs 6, the lower one ofwhich passes through the rear end of the beam. A pair of curved braces 7have their lower ends embracing the front beveled end of the runner andare secured thereto pivotally by a transverse bolt 9. The braces extendupwardly and to the rear and take at opposite sides of the standard 1.The braces have a series of regulating or adjusting holes 10, andthrough any pair of these in front and in rear of the standardsclamping-bolts 11 are passed.

12 designates a shovel or sweep, as the case may be, and through itpasses the ordinary heel-bolt 13, the said bolt passing between thecurved braces and provided with anut in rear of them.

It will be obvious that any form of shovel, sweep, or other plow may besecured to the brace and at a proper point upon the same. Furthermore,that by loosening the bolts 11 the braces, together with the plow, maybe raised or lowered upon the pivot-bolt, and thus the plow disposed ata proper inclination as will adaptit to run at the desired depth ofpenetration.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is 1. The combination,with a plow stock or beam, of a permanent depending standard, ahorizontal heel-bar secured to the lower end of the standard andextending in advance thereof, the forwardly-convexed brace pivotallyconnected at its front end to the front end of the heel-bar and arrangedat its rear end in contact with the standard, the rear end of the bracebeing transversely perforated to receive bolts to engage opposite sidesof the standard, and the plow attached to the brace, substantially asspecified.

2. In a plow, the combination,with a vertical standard and a horizontalheel-plate extending forwardly beyond the standard, of a bifurcatedbrace pivotally connected at one end to the front end of the heel-plateand having its parallel arms arranged, respectively, upon opposite sidesof the standard, bolts engaging perforations in said arms to hold thebrace at the desired inclination, and a plow attached to the brace,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ERNST KOENIG.

Witnesses:

F. T. FEHRENKAMP, HENRY KRAUSE.

